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« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2018, 02:27:28 PM »
Congress Considers Major Bills this Month Impacting Key Audubon Priorities

https://www.audubon.org/news/congress-considers-major-bills-month-impacting-key-audubon-priorities?ms=policy-adv-email-ea-x-20180714_advisory


 We are working to keep a harmful rider that would impact efforts to save Greater Sage-Grouse out of the final defense bill. Photo: Bob Wick/BLM
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« Reply #17 on: July 14, 2018, 02:29:59 PM »
As MBTA Turns 100, Audubon Defends the Law in Court and in Congress

https://www.audubon.org/news/as-mbta-turns-100-audubon-defends-law-court-and-congress?ms=policy-adv-email-ea-x-20180714_advisory


 Great Egrets are common now only because grassroots activists urged Congress to pass the Migratory Bird Treaty Act a century ago, saving the regal birds from the plume trade. Photo: Trudy Walden/Audubon Photography Awards
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« Reply #19 on: July 15, 2018, 03:51:44 PM »
Clipped Wings: Trump Administration Weakens Law That Protected Birds For A Century

http://wvpublic.org/post/clipped-wings-trump-administration-weakens-law-protected-birds-century#stream/0


Birds are important indicators of an ecosystem's health.
Credit Brittany Patterson / West Virginia Public Broadcasting
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« Reply #20 on: July 15, 2018, 03:53:12 PM »
Environmentalists worry ruling leaves birds without protection from incidental killings

http://www.pharostribune.com/indiana/news/article_70d60184-dd7c-5e3f-a9d6-abbc18b562df.html
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« Reply #21 on: July 15, 2018, 06:04:25 PM »
Group fears cuckoo could lose protection

https://www.abqjournal.com/1196429/yellow-billed-cuckoo-could-lose-protection.html


The yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) breeds mostly in the U.S. and spends its winters in South America. (Seabamirum/Flickr Commons)
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« Reply #23 on: July 19, 2018, 02:48:35 PM »
News Articles From July 19, 2018

Interior Department Proposes a Vast Reworking of the Endangered Species Act

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/climate/endangered-species-act-changes.html

Endangered Species Act stripped of key provisions in Trump administration proposal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/07/19/endangered-species-act-stripped-of-key-provisions-in-trump-administration-proposal/?utm_term=.09f64932e417&wpisrc=al_news__alert-hse--alert-national&wpmk=1

Trump administration introduces proposal to roll back Endangered Species Act protections

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/397905-trump-administration-introduce-proposal-to-roll-back-endangered

Trump Administration Takes Aim At Endangered Species Act

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-19/law-that-saved-bald-eagle-being-revamped-by-trump-administration

Press Release

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries Seek Public Input on Proposed Reforms to Improve & Modernize Implementation of the Endangered Species Act - https://www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?ref=u.s.-fish-and-wildlife-service-and-noaa-fisheries-seek-public-input-on-&_ID=36286

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Guidance

Endangered Species Act | Overview - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/laws-policies/

ESA Implementation | Regulation Revisions - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/improving_ESA/regulation-revisions.html

Endangered Species Act of 1973 - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/ESAall.pdf

ESA Fact Sheet - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/ESA_basics.pdf
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« Reply #24 on: July 19, 2018, 06:29:31 PM »
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News Articles From July 19, 2018

Interior Department Proposes a Vast Reworking of the Endangered Species Act

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/climate/endangered-species-act-changes.html

Endangered Species Act stripped of key provisions in Trump administration proposal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/07/19/endangered-species-act-stripped-of-key-provisions-in-trump-administration-proposal/?utm_term=.09f64932e417&wpisrc=al_news__alert-hse--alert-national&wpmk=1

Trump administration introduces proposal to roll back Endangered Species Act protections

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/397905-trump-administration-introduce-proposal-to-roll-back-endangered

Trump Administration Takes Aim At Endangered Species Act

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-19/law-that-saved-bald-eagle-being-revamped-by-trump-administration

Press Release

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries Seek Public Input on Proposed Reforms to Improve & Modernize Implementation of the Endangered Species Act - https://www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?ref=u.s.-fish-and-wildlife-service-and-noaa-fisheries-seek-public-input-on-&_ID=36286

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Guidance

Endangered Species Act | Overview - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/laws-policies/

ESA Implementation | Regulation Revisions - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/improving_ESA/regulation-revisions.html

Endangered Species Act of 1973 - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/ESAall.pdf

ESA Fact Sheet - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/ESA_basics.pdf

More: The Endangered Species Act is Itself Endangered (from The Union of Concerned Scientists)

https://blog.ucsusa.org/charise-johnson/the-endangered-species-act-is-itself-endangered

Dems slam proposed changes to Endangered Species Act

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/397442-dems-slam-proposed-endangered-species-act-changes

Senate endangered species bill faces uphill climb

https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/11240-senate-endangered-species-bill-faces-uphill-climb

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« Reply #25 on: July 20, 2018, 02:07:47 PM »
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Quote from: T40cfr403 on July 19, 2018, 02:48:35 PM
News Articles From July 19, 2018

Interior Department Proposes a Vast Reworking of the Endangered Species Act

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/climate/endangered-species-act-changes.html

Endangered Species Act stripped of key provisions in Trump administration proposal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/07/19/endangered-species-act-stripped-of-key-provisions-in-trump-administration-proposal/?utm_term=.09f64932e417&wpisrc=al_news__alert-hse--alert-national&wpmk=1

Trump administration introduces proposal to roll back Endangered Species Act protections

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/397905-trump-administration-introduce-proposal-to-roll-back-endangered

Trump Administration Takes Aim At Endangered Species Act

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-19/law-that-saved-bald-eagle-being-revamped-by-trump-administration

Press Release

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries Seek Public Input on Proposed Reforms to Improve & Modernize Implementation of the Endangered Species Act - https://www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?ref=u.s.-fish-and-wildlife-service-and-noaa-fisheries-seek-public-input-on-&_ID=36286

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Guidance

Endangered Species Act | Overview - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/laws-policies/

ESA Implementation | Regulation Revisions - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/improving_ESA/regulation-revisions.html

Endangered Species Act of 1973 - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/ESAall.pdf

ESA Fact Sheet - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/ESA_basics.pdf

More: The Endangered Species Act is Itself Endangered (from The Union of Concerned Scientists)

https://blog.ucsusa.org/charise-johnson/the-endangered-species-act-is-itself-endangered

Dems slam proposed changes to Endangered Species Act

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/397442-dems-slam-proposed-endangered-species-act-changes

Senate endangered species bill faces uphill climb

https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/11240-senate-endangered-species-bill-faces-uphill-climb

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Next on Trump's deregulatory agenda: the Endangered Species Act

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2018/07/20/the-energy-202-next-on-trump-s-deregulatory-agenda-the-endangered-species-act/5b50e9fc1b326b1e64695477/?utm_term=.b0d9e2b39abb&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1


A male sage grouse tries to impress a group of hens, at left, near the base of the Rattlesnake Range in 2014 in southwest Natrona County, Wyo. (Alan Rogers/Casper Star-Tribune/AP)


The US Endangered Species Act Is About to Be Stripped of Some Key Provisions

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-us-endangered-species-act-is-about-to-be-stripped-of-some-key-provisions




USFWS ESA Implementation | Regulation Revisions - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/improving_ESA/regulation-revisions.html

Section 4 (listing and critical habitat) rule: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/pdf/20180718_proposed_424_signed.pdf

4(d) (protective regulations) rule: Fish and Wildlife Service - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/pdf/20180718_proposed_4d_signed.pdf

Section 7 (interagency cooperation) rule: FWS and NOAA - https://www.fws.gov/endangered/pdf/20180718_proposed_402_signed.pdf


Federally endangered Nihoa Millerbird.
Photo credit: Mark MacDonald/USFWS
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« Reply #26 on: July 21, 2018, 07:52:01 PM »
Trump's Endangered Species Act Overhaul Could Have a Weird Side Effect

https://earther.com/trump-s-endangered-species-act-overhaul-could-have-a-we-1827760246

4 things to know about Trump's ESA overhaul

https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060089935

Safari Club International supports major proposed revisions to the ESA

https://www.ammoland.com/2018/07/sci-supports-usfws-proposed-improvements-to-esa/#axzz5LwH0Xb62

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« Reply #29 on: July 28, 2018, 02:45:10 PM »
Here are 10 plants and animals that might have gone extinct without the Endangered Species Act

https://www.popsci.com/endangered-species-act-recovered



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